Operation Paperclip page 1

Operation Paperclip page 1 by ric Gustafson

It was November 1944 and Strasbourg France was just liberated by the Second French Armored Division. In an apartment in the center of town, particle physicist Samuel Goudsmit was searching through files. The apartment belonged to German virus expert Dr Eugen Haagen. Haagen was a key developer of the Nazi biological weapons program. Haagen had fled the apartment days before and Goudsmit and his colleagues were studying his documents.
Goudsmit and his unit were hunting for Nazi science under the codename Alsos. As they kept studying the files, they hit pay dirt. Haagen had written to a colleague Dr August Hirt that he was conducting medical experiments on prisoners. Haagen was one of Germany's leading men of medicine. Goudsmit began to look for other top names who corresponded with Haagen. Two top names were noticed right away. Dr Kurt Blome who was the deputy surgeon general of the Third Reich and Surgeon General Walter Schreiber. Both of these men were internationally renowned physicians before Hitler came to power.


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